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I love the eye tracking. Even without having any issues with my hands, I'd like to have quick mouse movements without having to take a hand off of the key board. Zooming in to have more precision is clever.

It seems the current generation systems aren't working for Linux yet, but that gives me hope to have a way to work with it at some point in the future.




Keeping the hands on the keyboard would really increase productivity and reduce repetitive motion injuries. I know that editors like vim and emacs let you keep your hands on the keyboard, but interacting with anything else requires the mouse/touchpad.

At least 10 years ago, I imagined that the mouse could be replaced with something like a brainwave reader. You can train your brain to emit simple patterns that can be picked up either with a headband or remotely. It would take individual training, but with a few basic patterns, one should be able to do mouse movement and clicks. The eye tracking seems like the next best thing, especially since it is already implemented.


> It seems the current generation systems aren't working for Linux yet

This isn’t correct. Talon supports eye tracking on all of Windows, Linux, and Mac with the same hardware.


I think parent is talking about the Tobii. I was also very very excited about it (I can’t find a mouse or trackball that won’t give me hand or shoulder or wrist pain) but then I saw it only works on windows... and nothing else. No Linux support. So that’s a no go.

If someone knows of such a device for Linux, I’d love to hear about it!


Let me be more specific. The Tobii 4c, PCEye Mini, and Tobii 5* work approximately the same on Linux, Mac, and Windows with Talon out of the box.

* The Tobii 5 does work, but is a work in progress and has some caveats until I do more work on it.


Would you mind elaborating on this? I'm ready to buy a Tobii but would like to know what the model 5 caveats are and how long you think it'll be WIP. And if you think the improved specs on the 5 make it worth waiting for. Thanks!


The caveats make it short term worse than the 4C for some mouse modes, long term it should be the best option overall once I fix some things.


Oh, that's great news. I thought Talon needed the drivers to work and was constrained in that regard. I will need to free up some time and try it out.




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